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Harrow posted:Hot take: I'd rather watch a movie all about Donald Glover's Lando than a Han Solo prequel no matter who is playing Han A Lando television series... there's plenty of meat on that bone. You got a stew going.
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tadashi posted:A Solo backstory was a movie Lucas was planning to make all along (it was material that he told the EU writers they weren't allowed to touch because he wanted it for himself). I think those of us who want to see more Star Wars movies can be thankful that better directors were given the opportunity to make it, whatever the final result is. Lucas actually sat down with Lucasfilm publishing director Carol Titelman in 1977 and gave a bunch of notes on character backstories for the various authors to use when writing stories. His vision for Han probably changed through the years (at one point he was going to appear as an orphan on Kashyyyk in Episode 3), but this may have been somewhat close to what he was going to do: George Lucas posted:Han is around thirty years old. His parents might have been killed in a space battle with Han as the only survivor. There’s no real record about where the space gypsies found him. They run through the galaxy picking up all sorts of odds and ends. They may have won him in a game. They may have cheated someone out of him and thought they would sell him. He was kind of like a slave. Although the gypsies loved him in their own way, they were also mean to him. They used him for their own ends and he was very unhappy. They would send him out on dangerous missions and they would make him beg in the streets and that sort of thing. They abandoned him to the Wookiees when he was about seven years old; he lived with them for about five years.
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# ? Apr 16, 2018 18:32 |
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The first paragraph is basically Rey.
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# ? Apr 16, 2018 18:38 |
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Schwarzwald posted:The first paragraph is basically Rey. Misread "first" as "final" and thought, "Sure, Rey could have a girlfriend in every port when we pick up at the start of Ep. IX."
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# ? Apr 16, 2018 19:17 |
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George Lucas posted:“He has a girlfriend in every port.” Unlike R2 where every port is his girlfriend.
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Lord Hydronium posted:There's also the Brian Daley novels set before ANH, among the first EU books ever. They're good and recommended. And being early EU, they're not concerned with continuity at all, just telling fun little adventures, for people who balk at that aspect of the EU (I like Crispin's trilogy too, but it's big on tying together all the previous material about Han's history, so YMMV).
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# ? Apr 16, 2018 20:49 |
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AndyElusive posted:Unlike R2 where every port is his girlfriend. nice Robot style, do you have more of those Lucas worldbuilding paragraphs on hand?
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# ? Apr 16, 2018 21:18 |
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Doronin posted:A Lando television series... there's plenty of meat on that bone. You got a stew going. Is this a Carl Weathers reference?
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# ? Apr 16, 2018 22:21 |
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Ingmar terdman posted:nice They're from the Making of Star Wars book by J.W. Rinzler - I put together an album of the relevant part here. At least one entry was edited by Lucas during the making of the book to include a reference to midichlorians, so some of it it may have had at least a "sure, whatever" level of approval as of 2007.
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# ? Apr 16, 2018 23:52 |
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If my math is correct, and it usually isn't, Han completed the Kessel Run in 18 trillion Star Wars half marathons.
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# ? Apr 17, 2018 00:02 |
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Robot Style posted:They're from the Making of Star Wars book by J.W. Rinzler - I put together an album of the relevant part here. Thanks, these rule
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# ? Apr 17, 2018 01:18 |
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A Leia movie would probably be more interesting than a Han movie.
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# ? Apr 17, 2018 01:38 |
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PostNouveau posted:A Leia movie would probably be more interesting than a Han movie. Certainly there’s much more relevant commentary to be made from the daughter of the privileged liberal elite turning into a violent revolutionary.
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# ? Apr 17, 2018 02:19 |
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Snowman_McK posted:Especially since Rogue One already was kind of a heist movie. Hes black and white people overemphasize black features when doing art because photography is set up for white people.
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# ? Apr 17, 2018 03:42 |
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Zoran posted:Certainly there’s much more relevant commentary to be made from the daughter of the privileged liberal elite turning into a violent revolutionary. Wasn't she totally hands off until her capture due to needing to be undercover since she's a high ranking politician?
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# ? Apr 17, 2018 04:05 |
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MrJacobs posted:Wasn't she totally hands off until her capture due to needing to be undercover since she's a high ranking politician? Teenage Leia was dealing with rebels behind the Empire’s back while doing her political duties. I think she was directly involved in helping them steal those Hammerhead cruisers used in Rogue One.
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# ? Apr 17, 2018 04:35 |
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Darko posted:Hes black and white people overemphasize black features when doing art because photography is set up for white people. Uh all these examples deemphasize his characteristics. Try again troll
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# ? Apr 17, 2018 04:53 |
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Ammanas posted:Uh all these examples deemphasize his characteristics. Try again troll Unless we're talking about the 300 USD (and more) Hot Toys Deluxe versions the action figures' faces rarely look anything like the actor. Google Luke or Anakin and you get some reeeeally odd interpretations: You get what you pay for. And if you pay for the Hot Toys Finn I don't think there's reason to complain: So blame lovely, cheap moulds and underpaid engravers/designers, not a racist camera setup. Decius fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Apr 17, 2018 |
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Ammanas posted:Uh all these examples deemphasize his characteristics. Try again troll No, they just overemphasize various aspects of the features and not others. We aren't talking about Mr Popo style lips and color stuff, it's just that people are very not used to representing black people in art and get them far more wrong than almost any other race because of it. And a lot of that is based around how imagery is set up in the first place. it's a random art factoid I felt like adding last night.
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# ? Apr 17, 2018 15:12 |
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Decius posted:You get what you pay for. And if you pay for the Hot Toys Finn I don't think there's reason to complain: thats one hot toy
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# ? Apr 17, 2018 18:29 |
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Dat hot toy looks like Finn/Boyega to me? There's some bad sculpts but that doesn't strike me as one of them.
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# ? Apr 17, 2018 19:39 |
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AndyElusive posted:Dat hot toy looks like Finn/Boyega to me? He's saying that's a good/accurate one because it's expensive/not cheap. Hence "nothing to complain about".
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# ? Apr 17, 2018 23:25 |
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I was a kid in the 90s so my Luke figure was He-man with a lightsaber and some sort of grappling gun, and Lando had insane abs
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# ? Apr 17, 2018 23:36 |
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Ingmar terdman posted:I was a kid in the 90s so my Luke figure was He-man with a lightsaber and some sort of grappling gun, and Lando had insane abs True to the Marvel comics, I suppose:
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# ? Apr 17, 2018 23:57 |
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Rambo Luke! I love the original comics, they were insanely derivative, as all good Star Wars is. Terminator vs Darth Vader!
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 00:03 |
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Ingmar terdman posted:I was a kid in the 90s so my Luke figure was He-man with a lightsaber and some sort of grappling gun, and Lando had insane abs No abs on the new one unfortunately. Nice cape and scarf, though. The new Tarkin one looks kinda like Peter Cushing. I think it's the new face printing technology they use.
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 00:17 |
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Why is that Interrogation droid spilling all that clear fluid on the floor?
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 00:41 |
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AndyElusive posted:Why is that Interrogation droid spilling all that clear fluid on the floor? its a mini UFO and it's abducting ants
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 00:52 |
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AndyElusive posted:Why is that Interrogation droid spilling all that clear fluid on the floor? It vomits everyday thinking about the monstrous work it does.
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 00:58 |
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It’s silver. He needs it to fight Dracula.
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 02:08 |
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How come the empire never tried to wipe out the hutt crime syndicate
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 11:09 |
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Uncle Wemus posted:How come the empire never tried to wipe out the hutt crime syndicate Based on what I saw in The Clone Wars and The Last Jedi, the Hutts and others like them might actually own many of the resources the Empire needs to built their war machines and support their troops.
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 11:35 |
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How come the empire never ended Droid slavery?
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 22:59 |
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Enslaved by space slugs Still no arrests? How come, Paul Saltines?
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 23:07 |
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Uncle Wemus posted:How come the empire never tried to wipe out the hutt crime syndicate Could be that like many authoritarian regimes who don't care about the common man they let organized crime continue so long as they get a cut. They might even use them as a way to keep the masses in-line, like how the real life mafia was often used as union-busters. Then again they might be actually making a move. We know between RotS and ANH the Empire annexed Tatooine. Unfortunately from what the characters say this has made things even worse. Especially the cut Biggs scene where he tells Luke about how the Empire has annexed all the outer rim territories like Tatooine so they can steal everyones land and give it to big corporations.
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 23:25 |
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I thought the deleted scene had Biggs saying the Empire had nationalised all the big companies.
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 23:53 |
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There also may be a case that the hutts are just flat out too powerful. I mean, in the modern age, where heading towards a point where criminal entities have comparable power to a state, like the various Mexican cartels or the Red Commando in Brazil, or other places where they're intertwined, like the Jamaican gangs. It may just be that actually dislodging the Hutts from what seems to be an entire sector may just be more effort than it's worth.
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The MSJ posted:Based on what I saw in The Clone Wars and The Last Jedi, the Hutts and others like them might actually own many of the resources the Empire needs to built their war machines and support their troops.
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